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Clopenby Project Galapagos6 months live at Company N's cafe

No more clopens.

Shift schedules your staff actually read.

Clopen turns the roster spreadsheet you already keep into a personal, mobile-first shift view for every employee — their shifts, the calendar, and who's working today — so a late close followed by an early open never comes as a surprise. Built for cafes, restaurants and small shops.

엑셀 근무표 그대로, 직원 한 명 한 명의 손안으로.
마감하고 다음 날 오픈하는 근무, 이제 미리 보이게.

Ran Feb–Sep 2026 at Company N's cafe · roster synced every 30 min · 1,103 automated tests. No new system for owners, no app store install for staff.

The problem

The roster lives in a spreadsheet.
Your team lives on their phones.

Small teams with hourly staff run on a weekly roster that someone builds in Excel. Then it gets screenshotted, pinch-zoomed and asked about all week.

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Built for the owner, not the reader

A full-team grid is great for planning, but hard for one person to read on a small screen.

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The same questions, every week

“Am I on Saturday?” “Who's closing tonight?” “Did my day off go through?”

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Changes get lost

When the sheet is updated, old screenshots keep circulating in the group chat.

Why the name

clo·pen /ˈkloʊ.pən/

noun, shift-work slang. Closing the store late at night, then coming back to open it early the next morning.

Clopens are a fact of life in cafes and restaurants — and they hurt most when nobody saw them coming. Clopen puts each person's week on their own phone, so a close-then-open is visible at a glance instead of buried in a team-wide grid.

클로픈(Clopen): 밤에 마감(close)하고 다음 날 아침 오픈(open)까지 하는 근무. 우리 앱의 이름이자, 줄이고 싶은 것.

Fri
Close 14–22
Sat
Open 07–15
0006121824
9h between leaving and coming back — including the commute and sleep.
Planned Owner-side clopen alerts with a minimum-rest rule.

How it works

Keep your spreadsheet. Give everyone their own view.

Clopen doesn't ask owners to rebuild their schedule in a new tool. It reads the roster you already make.

Keep the roster you already use

Use your existing Excel roster. In the pilot it synced automatically every 30 minutes; v2 imports it from SharePoint.

NameMonTueWed
MinaOOoff
JihoMCO
SoraOoffM

Clopen reads it

Names, dates, shift codes, teams and leave days are turned into a clean, structured schedule.

WhoDateShift
MinaOct 1207–15
JihoOct 1210–18
SoraOct 1207–15

Everyone sees their own shifts

Each employee opens a personal, phone-friendly view: my shifts, the calendar, and who's working with them.

“Open Mon & Tue, off Wed, close Fri.” — at a glance.

Features

Everything a shift worker checks — nothing they don't.

Designed mobile-first for people who look at their schedule between orders.

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My shifts

Your upcoming shifts as a simple list, today highlighted.

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Calendar

Month and week views with colour-coded shift types.

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Who's working

Today's and this week's crew, grouped by team.

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Leave & days off

Annual leave and rest days shown clearly — no guessing.

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Date detail sheet

Tap any date to see the full line-up for that day.

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Light & dark theme

Easy on the eyes before an early open or after a late close.

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Auto-clear

Schedule data is cleared automatically after inactivity.

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Mobile-first, no install

Opens in the browser on any phone — close-then-open weeks visible at a glance.

A closer look

Simple screens, built around one question: “When do I work?”

Sample screens with a fictional cafe and fictional staff. Open the interactive demo →

Try it

See Clopen with a fictional cafe.

Switch between staff, open the team week and tap a date — all with made-up data. Running a small team on shifts? Write to us.

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